Invitation
The symposium will focus on the photochemical and/or photophysical functions of the complex systems. The complex systems are beyond simple and small organic or inorganic compounds, and they include metal complexes, supramolecular systems, macromolecules, and biological systems. Model systems for natural photosynthetic systems are also one of the important topics. Specific topics to be covered include novel molecules with exciting photochemical or photophysical properties like luminescence, photochemical drugs and solar energy conversion, unique synthetic and theoretical strategies for such molecules, innovative molecules and/or complex systems applicable to the practical use. The symposium will highlight many of the recent developments in broad area of photochemistry, photophysics, and photobiology, with a particular emphasis on how the molecules with photochemical/photophysical functions are designed and how the molecules are applied to practical use. We wish that you will discuss with the other participants and make friends, leading this symposium fruitful. And we hope that this scientific field will become much more active after the symposium.
We look forward to welcoming you in Kona.
Organizers
Kazuyuki Ishii (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Yasuchika Hasegawa (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Miki Hasegawa (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
Hitoshi Ishida (Kansai University, Japan)
Garry S. Hanan (Univ. Montreal, Canada)
Kenneth Kam-Wing Lo (City University of Hong Kong, China)
Peter C. Ford (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Ana de Bettencourt-Dias (University of Nevada, USA)
Hiroyuki Takeda (Gunma University, Japan)
Atsushi Kobayashi (Hokkaido University, Japan)
Eri Sakuda (Nagasaki University, Japan)
Kazuki Nakamura (Chiba University, Japan)
Akinobu Nakada (Kyoto University, Japan)
Kei Murata (Riken, Japan)
Kiyoshi Miyata (Kyushu University, Japan)
Co-organized by
The Photofunctional Complexes Research Association Japan
and Concerto Photocatalysis